Ahrefs Site Audit

What is Ahrefs Site Audit?

About

Ahrefs Site Audit is an SEO crawler operated by Ahrefs. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often Ahrefs Site Audit visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) crawlers do not adhere to a fixed visitation schedule for websites. The frequency of visits varies widely based on several factors, including the search keywords it ranks for, and how many other websites link to it.

Type

SEO Crawler

Discovers search engine optimization insights

Detail

Operated By	Ahrefs
Last Updated	7 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0% of top websites are blocking Ahrefs Site Audit

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Country of Origin

Unknown

Ahrefs Site Audit has no known country of origin

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from SEO Crawlers

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Robots.txt

Should I Block Ahrefs Site Audit?

Probably not, especially if you benefit from an SEO service yourself. However, you might choose to block them if you're concerned about things like server resource usage.

How Do I Block Ahrefs Site Audit?

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Edits Are Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically.

Set Up Automatic Robots.txt

You can block Ahrefs Site Audit or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

# robots.txt

User-agent: Ahrefs Site Audit # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/ahrefs-site-audit
Disallow: /